They had promised a general amnesty to the collaborators of the former Afghan regime.
Since taking power in mid-August, the Taliban have actually carried out at least 72 executions without trial, the United Nations accused on Tuesday.
Between August and November, the UN received "credible allegations of more than 100 executions of former members of the Afghan national security forces and others associated with the former government, of which at least 72 have been attributed. to the Taliban, ”Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada Al-Nashif told the Human Rights Council. In addition, “in the province of Nangarhar alone, at least 50 extrajudicial executions of people suspected of being members of IS-K (the jihadist group Islamic State - Khorasan, a rival movement of the Taliban behind several attacks on Afghan soil, Editor's note) seem to have been committed, ”she bid.
"In several cases, the bodies were exhibited in public."
This manifestation of violence shows that the fundamentalists have returned to their old practices to instill fear and silence any hint of opposition.
At least eight activists and two Afghan journalists have been killed since August, while the United Nations has also recorded 59 illegal detentions.
“The safety of Afghan judges, prosecutors and lawyers - especially women lawyers - is of particular concern,” she added.
One of the world's worst humanitarian disasters
Alerted by NGOs, the United States, France and other Western countries have already expressed concern about these summary executions and called for the rapid opening of investigations. The Taliban had rejected these accusations: "There have been cases of murders of former members of the security forces" of the government overthrown last summer, "but because of rivalries or personal enmities", swept the spokesman. from the Taliban Interior Ministry, Qari Sayed Khosti.
Nada Al-Nashif also warned of the suffering of the Afghan people, faced, according to the UN, with one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world. According to the WFP, the United Nations World Food Program, 98% of the Afghan population does not have enough to eat, seven out of ten families borrow food, and this intolerable situation, which winter will not fail to worsen. , leads "to a situation of hunger and misery like I have never seen in the more than twenty years that I have worked for the WFP", affirmed the head of the agency in the country, Mary-Ellen McGroarty.
This distress is pushing families to desperate measures, including child labor, early marriage and "even the sale of children", warned Nada Al-Nashif.
Stressing that the crisis "is worsened by the impact of sanctions and the freezing of state assets", she warned the international community that its "political choices (...) are a matter of life and death" for the Afghans .
WFP has helped 15 million people nationwide so far in 2021, including 7 million in November alone - up from 4 million in September.
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Relying heavily on international aid, the country's economy has stalled since the fundamentalists came to power and the drought caused by global warming is not helping.
On December 3, the supreme leader of the Taliban called on the government, in a decree, to "take serious measures to ensure respect for the rights of women" in Afghanistan, in particular against forced marriages, without mentioning the right to work or to work. to study.
While this is an "important signal", the decree, for example, "does not clearly state a minimum age for marriage and does not refer to the broader rights of women and girls to education. , at work, freedom of movement or participation in public life, ”she explained.
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She also deplored the "marked decline" in secondary school attendance by girls, due in particular to the lack of female teachers.
As a pledge of change offered to the West, the Taliban have promised to let young girls continue their studies, but separately from men and with women teachers, when they are in the extreme minority.